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I Alone Can Fix It
864 pages
A tense, unprecedented look inside a chaotic administration grappling with a global crisis and a contested election.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like being a fly on the wall in a room where the walls are rapidly closing in. It is a propulsive, deeply investigative plunge into the chaotic inner workings of executive power during a year of unprecedented disaster. The mood is inherently tense and alarming, driven by the sheer weight of a global pandemic and a destabilized political landscape. The prose is sharp, journalistic, and packed with stunning detail, offering a serious, unvarnished look at institutional failure and crisis management. It is an urgent read for political junkies and history buffs who want to understand the raw, behind-the-scenes reality of a government grappling with mass casualties and election turmoil, delivering a gripping, dread-soaked narrative of a presidency in freefall.
- Mood
- tense
- chaotic
- alarming
- dread-soaked
- Tone
- journalistic
- urgent
- critical
- serious
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- political dysfunction · crisis management · executive power · institutional failure
- The writing
- Investigative, detailed, and sharply observant, delivering unprecedented access with journalistic rigor.
- The arc
- Moves from mounting alarm during a global health crisis to sheer disbelief at the inner workings of a destabilized administration.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave behind-the-scenes political journalism and detailed accounts of recent American history.
Content notes
- pandemic trauma
- political instability
- mass casualties
About the book
"The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency's inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail"--
Description from Open Library.
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